I know how to take it apart, but everyone who has said they damaged some part of it. Even using plastic tools. I'm not going to destroy this $140 device, especially since I'm a poor student.

We should start a new "Donate for a sacrificial Kindle Touch for Yifan Lu" sticky. Put your donate button from your web site on it."

I donated $10 to you on PayPal a few days ago. Please put that in your "sacrificial kindle" fund. Hopefully you won't damage a sacrificial kindle, but at least if you do, it would not cost you anything."

*** Come on team! Go to Yifan Lu's page and donate some money so he can have a spare kindle touch to open and find his serial port: